Cans don’t let light in, plain and simple. “Light is destructive to the organic compound in beer that make the flavors everyone is so crazy about,” he said. Welz also suspects that cans, with a “double-crimped” seal, are better than bottles at preventing air from getting in — air being one of the main enemies of a delicious brew.

In the tactic, dubbed “flash for crash,” a driver who has the right of way flashes his headlights to signal to another car to go ahead of him. Then he accelerates, causing a collision. He denies flashing his headlights, and points out he had the right of way. Under the law, the other driver is at fault.

You, presumably, are not the sort of person who ever loses your keys or wallet. You, presumably, are the sort of person who wisely puts their keys and wallet in exactly the same place every night and never has them fall out of your pocket in a car or on a plane.

A World Bank report last fall warned that “present emission trends put the world plausibly on a path toward 4 degrees Celsius warming within the century.” The surface waters of the carbon-dioxide absorbing oceans have already become 30 percent more acidic since the start of the Industrial Revolution.

in case you happen to be someone who hasn’t 30C, or 30 serial dilutions of 100-fold, which translates into a 1060-fold dilution. (Hint: Avagadro’s number is around 6 x 1023, which means that a 30C homeopathic dilution is unlikely to have even a single molecule of original remedy in it other than contaminants carried over from the serial dilutions. Homeopathy is, basically, nothing more than water

A court awarded Wu damages. After paying her the bulk of the 68,000 yuan ($11,000) fine, the noodle restaurant owner gave the remaining 10,000 yuan ($1,600) in eight large bags of coins. Wu deposited half of the change, which took 18 peeved bank workers all day. Though, this means that Wu is still chilling with a few hundred bucks of Chinese dimes.

A popular conception about Abenomics — Japan’s new drive for economic recovery — is that it’s all about weakening the yen and boosting exporters. But this really isn’t the play at all. The real idea is to reduce real interest rates, so as to stimulate domestic demand, unlocking dormant investment and consumption spending.

China’s “bad bank” debts from the 1990s are being paid off by the government, increasingly rapidly of late. What this means for China’s big banks depends on which perspective you come from. It’s arguably a rather good thing in the near-term. What it means for the broader economy is more complicated.